AJAX, Javascript, CSS debugging extension for Firefox

If you do any javascript and or AJAX work you need the FireBug firefox extension.

FireBug lets you explore the far corners of the DOM by keyboard or mouse. All of the tools you need to poke, prod, and monitor your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax are brought together into one seamless experience, including an error console, command line, and a variety of fun inspectors.

In the preface to the current Admin interface specification the last paragraph caught my eye:A overview of user task need a dashboard, where she can follow here own content, approval and other tasks she might do on a regular basis.I recently saw a demo of the latest version of the bug tracking system JIRA 4.0 by Atlassian. It used an OpenSocial dashboard to allow users to customise their homepage to access and interact with information that was important to them. The system not only displays JIRA widgets but any OpenSocial widgets (and those from other Atlassian products). You can check out a video of it in action here and more information on how Atlassian is using OpenSocial here.

What is OpenSocial? From the official site:OpenSocial defines a common API for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML,
developers can create apps that access a social network's friends and update feeds. Google personal home page is an example of an OpenSocial da…

The Admin Interface Refresh project has had a concept implemented that can be reviewed live with an eZ Publish install. This is a guide on how to get things working.

The new Admin Interface design is a prototype and it's constantly being refined so don't try this on your production servers.

Starting from a clean install of eZ Publish 4.2 with the the eZ Flow package (with content)Change into the design directory # cd designCheckout the design# svn co http://pubsvn.ez.no/nextgen/trunk/design/admin2Edit settings/siteaccess/admin_site/site.ini.append.php and change the SiteDesign to admin2[DesignSettings]SiteDesign=admin2Grab new menu.ini - this is required to display the left hand menus under Setup and My account.# cd settings/siteaccess/admin_site/# wget http://pubsvn.ez.no/nextgen/trunk/settings/menu.iniClear the cacheYou should now be able to view the new interface and it should look something like this:

To revert back to the original interface:Remove the menu.ini from the ad…